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This is a 1992 CIA History Staff monograph by Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, originally classified Secret NOFORN and approved for release in 2013. It covers the CIA's manned overhead reconnaissance program from 1954 to 1974 and the two aircraft it developed, the U-2 and the A-12 OXCART. The history covers the U-2 overflights of the Soviet Union, the 1960 downing of Francis Gary Powers and later operations in Asia and Latin America. It also includes a section on U-2s, UFOs and Operation BLUE BOOK.
“Headquarters”25 pages
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## Secret NOFORN Index 364 Evang. Vilhelm 142 EVEN STEVEN 256 Executive Branch 109 exotic fuels 263 ## F F-100 fighter 71 F-102 fighter 270 F-104 fighter 10-11, 45, 329 F-106 fighter 270, 284 F-108A Rapier 285 F-111 fighter 312 Fairbanks, Alaska 134 Fairchild K-19 aircraft 49 FAN SONG acquisition radar 234 Far East 3, 110, 133-134, 140, 144, 190, 197, 201, 216, 224, 233-234, 242-243, 301, 305, 316, 320, 332. "Fast Move" operations 216 Federal Aviation Administrator 289 Federal procurement cycle 44 "ferret" equipment 3, 335 ferret flights 123 FICON 22 Field Activities, Deputy for 192 5412 Committee 188, 226 fighter 4, 10, 14, 22, 66, 74-75, 108, 124, 146, 177, 182, 201, 214, 312, 317, 328-329 fighter conversion 22 Fili airframe plant 105 fillets 277, 288-289 film 1, 31-32, 49, 51-53, 55, 60, 100, 108, 114-115, 119-121, 145, 153, 179, 209, 215, 218, 221-222, 226, 235-236, 239, 241, 247, 249-250, 254, 281-282, 306, 310-311, 316, 330 film processing 60, 121, 247 film-transport system 55 Firewel Company 63 First Weather Reconnaissance Squadron. Provisional (WRSP-1) 94 Fischer, C. W. 309 FISH 250, 263, 268-269, 312 FISH HAWK 249-250 Flickinger, Donald D. 62 FLIPTOP 198 "Flit" 62 Florida 198 flying boat 270 focal-length cameras 13 focal-length lenses 51
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 406 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.